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Image by Ri Butov<\/a> from Pixabay<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>
Happy New Year! Or as some might say, Shanah tovah!<\/span><\/p>\n
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As we continue to follow the Biblical feasts through the year, we\u2019re now at Rosh Hashanah. Also known as the Jewish New Year.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n
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This isn\u2019t the same champagne popping, firework blasting holiday celebrated globally at midnight on 01\/01, and I think I love it all the more for that, not being one for loud parties any way.<\/span><\/p>\n
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This isn\u2019t so much about time passing, as it is about God actually creating time, and the world, and us.<\/span><\/p>\n
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With the blast of the shofar, a ram\u2019s horn used as an instrument, we are transported back, back to days we can only imagine. Moses, Abraham, Joshua \u2013 and even earlier, to when God alone moved and spoke, calling to life the world and everything in it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n
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Isn\u2019t that simply amazing?\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n
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God\u2019s very breath being sent into our bodies to awaken us into a paradise, a natural world unmarred by sin.<\/span><\/p>\n
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Then the\u00a0Lord<\/span> God formed a man from the dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being. (Genesis 2:7<\/a> NIV)<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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Later, Abraham called to sacrifice his one greatest treasure, the promised child \u2013 and as the knife point is glinting in the sunlight, about to arc down, about to complete the most difficult task he has ever faced, the sound of twigs snapping, the bleat of a ram, horns held fast in the thicket.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n
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\u201cDo not lay a hand on the boy,\u201d he said. \u201cDo not do anything to him. Now I know that you fear God, because you have not withheld from me your son, your only son.\u201d (Genesis 22:12<\/a> NIV)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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Further on, a whole troop of men circling a city in utter silence, only to unleash blasts of horns and shouts, the sounds crumbling an impenetrable fortress.<\/span><\/p>\n
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When the trumpets sounded, the army shouted, and at the sound of the trumpet, when the men gave a loud shout, the wall collapsed; so everyone charged straight in, and they took the city. (Joshua 6:20<\/a> NIV)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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I really recommend taking time during this feast weekend to read the entire books of Genesis, Joshua, and Revelations.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n
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Yes, I\u2019ve gone New Testament now!<\/span><\/p>\n
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There is so much joy to be found in looking over all that God has done up to now, but there is so much excitement and hope in the reading of things to come.<\/span><\/p>\n
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We know Jesus has already defeated sin and death with His sacrifice on the cross and we know He\u2019s coming back to cleanse the world and bring us home, but how fitting in a celebration of God\u2019s love and redemption, to spend time meditating on the final redemption chapter.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n
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While Revelation is difficult to digest with so much destruction of all we\u2019ve ever known as home, in all transparency I wouldn\u2019t even read this chapter for many years out of fear, there is a joy for those who call Jesus, Lord.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n
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The wedding feast!\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n
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Image by Dan Cojocaru<\/a> from Pixabay<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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I can just imagine, standing outside the massive doors waiting eagerly among friends and family. Then with the loud sounds of trumpets, the doors are swung open and light pours out with soft music the likes of which our mortal ears cannot comprehend, and there He is \u2013 Jesus, waiting for us, just as promised all those thousands of years ago.<\/span><\/p>\n
\u00a0<\/p>\nThen the angel said to me, \u201cWrite this: Blessed are those who are invited to the wedding supper of the Lamb!\u201d And he added, \u201cThese are the true words of God.\u201d (Revelation 19:9<\/a> NIV)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
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This weekend, let\u2019s celebrate all that God has done and will do!\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n
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Image by \u05d0 \u05e4<\/a> from Pixabay<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Shanah tovah friends! <\/span><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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